Lol really?
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Yes. I had to look up “probity” :) the GRE is the test students have to take before graduate school. Half of it involves demonstrating one’s intelligence by identifying rarely used fancy words. Students spend days/weeks memorizing as many almost never used words as they can.
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Replying to @KyrillErshov @twitemp1 and
Jesus fuck. Do you really think an academic woman living in the UK for decades really doesn't know "probity"?
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Replying to @o_guest @KyrillErshov and
You think she used Google Translate just because you had to use Google to understand her?
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Replying to @o_guest @KyrillErshov and
This is so painful to read. Dude... it's just like you keep digging and digging... Trust me there is no gold down there.
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Replying to @o_guest @KyrillErshov and
Ignore him
@o_guest , don't bother arguing. He's a diversion1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @twitemp1 @KyrillErshov and
Probity is from Latin BTW — so it's pretty standard one can know that from Spanish.
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Google tells me probity is probidad. Not that Esther isn't a genius, but you don't have to be a genius to guesstimate/remember probity in English based on that.
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Replying to @o_guest @KyrillErshov and
Nope. As with most of the Latin derived words in English
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Replying to @twitemp1 @KyrillErshov and
Really standard mapping which I am pretty sure Spanish and English bilinguals (which I am not) are familiar with. I am seeing it's an -ity to -dad (and vice versa) mapping as well as others too. So vanity vanidad, calamity calamidad. Obviously languages are a mess though...
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...but come on English and Spanish obviously have a buttload of similar (cognate) words. Sadly similarity doesn't map onto similaridad. 
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Oh! But hilarity hilaridad works! How appropriate!
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Banality banalidad. This is a cool game.
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Superficiality superficialidad.
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